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Acording to latest reports, famous Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji has reported popstar, Wizkid to the police over his threat to beat up Linda over a malicious report she posted on her platform about him.
Linda Ikeji and Wizkid

The war between Linda Ikeji and Wizkid is far from over as Linda Ikeji has dragged Wizkid to Lagos Police Commissioner after he threatened to send his 16 year old cousin to beat her up.

According to NET who reported the news exclusively, a source revealed that after the matter was reported to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Oweseni, a summon was issued to Wizkid, with an invitation letter sent to the Surulere office of his manager, Sunday Are.

‘He was instructed to show up today but he did not’, the source said.

It should be noted that Section 323 of the criminal code states that ‘Any person who, knowing the contents thereof directly or indirectly causes any person to receive any writing threatening to kill any person is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years’.


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A man has been caught on camera sexually assaulting his girlfriend's pet dog and is being made to pay for the strange act.

Jesus Gutierrez

The man, Jesus Gutierrez, was arrested after he was allegedly caught on camera assaulting his girlfriend's pet dog, sexually.

According to Mirror Online, Gutierrez, 39, was filmed handling the Maltese, called Princess, on Wednesday afternoon at his home in New York, prosecutors said.

His 43-year-old girlfriend had gone to work but set up a camera to film what was going on in the flat, the New York Daily News reported.

At 3:45pm local time prosecutors claimed it filmed Gutierrez abusing the dog.

He was arrested and later released on bail. He faces being charged with torturing an animal and sexual conduct with an animal.

Gutierrez's lawyer, Jack G. Goldberg, said he'd seen "no evidence" of the assault, adding "I want to see the video."


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A consultant paediatrician, White Waters Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Arinola Aduloju, on Wednesday said babies who suck their thumbs were likely to have speech impairment and dental malocclusion in the future.
Aduloju said although babies usually have natural sucking reflexes, it could cause them to put their thumbs or fingers into their mouths even before birth.
He said, “Thumb sucking is a common habit in children, it makes babies feel secure while some might eventually develop a habit of thumb sucking when they’re in need of soothing or going to sleep.
“When a child sucks his or her thumbs, she tends to have some dental malocclusion problems such that the teeth might push forward and will not align as they are supposed to be in the future.
“Another negative effect is that it may make them have difficulty in their speech and may find it hard to pronounce some sounds that could be coming from their mouth.
“Also the child may be swallowing some germs because he or she puts the hand in the mouth without washing.”
Aduloju added, “They also tend to stay alone and eat less because they have found comfort in sucking their thumbs.”
However, he cautioned that mothers’ attempt to putting too much pressure on such child to stop thumb sucking would delay the process of weaning.
He advised, “Instead, use a strategic idea to stop it.
“Identify the reason he or she sucks. It may be due to hunger, anger, frustration and stress, then try to work on that act, luckily, it may stop them from the act.
“Don’t scold, criticise or punish your child on the act, rather promise to offer him or her gifts if he or she stops thumb sucking.
“For some older ones, thumb sucking is an incredibly difficult habit to break but always try and tell them the health implication.’’
According to him, sometimes peer pressure may also help them stop.
However, Aduloju advised parents not to worry and should never put too much pressure on their children to stop thumb sucking, saying such attempt might only delay the process.


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Minister of information and Culture has denied reports that the deadly Boko Haram terrorist group is demanding $50 million from the President Buhari-led federal government as ransom before releasing abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed

Speaking during an interview with the Voice of America (VoA), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, has denied reports making rounds online that Boko Haram is demanding $50 million from the federal government as ransom before releasing the over 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

"It appears we have several versions of this report. The one that we heard was from a source that (Boko Haram) wants to release 10 of these girls for 1 million euros. But the most important thing is that we’ve gone through this route before, and until and when we establish the credibility of this source and the truth behind it, the government will not be in a hurry to make a statement. However, government is using its own channels to authenticate the credibility of this source," he said.

The minister described as 'unfair' the accusations that the Buhari administration is not doing enough to secure the release of the abducted girls.

"No day passes without the issue of the kidnapped girls not being at the front burner. But these are highly security and intelligence issues, which cannot always be discussed openly. But I can assure you that for this government, the return of these girls is what is going to bring the final closure on the Boko Haram terrorism and we are working very hard, daily on it.

"Those who say that are being very unfair to us. We inherited a very bad situation where the trail had gone cold, despite that every day we send out reports, we receive [information] some of them are phony some of them are just there to excoriate government.

"But the truth of the matter is that it’s not a matter that the government is taking lightly. Those who want a daily report on what we are doing, of course in security that does not happen. But we have channels of information in which we make available on a need to know basis," he said.


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Actress Chioma Akpotha was displeased at the scatching remarks she got from some of her IG followers after sharing photos of her colleague, Uche Jumbo.

In a bid to support uche jumbo,

she replied with sacarstic questions.


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Actress Chioma Akpotha was displeased at the scatching remarks she got from some of her IG followers after sharing photos of her colleague, Uche Jumbo.

In a bid to support uche jumbo,

she replied with sacarstic questions.


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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday told Nigerians that he was feeling their pains saying that mutterings about the new administration being a scam was far fetched, saying that the one-chance scammers have been driven out of town.




The president spoke at the Vanguard Personality Award ceremony in Lagos where he was jointly honoured with his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Personality of the Year Award, 2015.

Buhari’s call for increased confidence in his administration came as Jonathan praised all Nigerians for contributing to the successes of the elections that characterised his time in office.

In his speech, President Buhari who was represented by the minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said:
“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, let me use this opportunity to tell our compatriots that this Administration is keenly aware of the difficulties they are facing at this time, resulting mostly from the fuel scarcity, poor power supply, inflation etc.
“As a government that was propelled into office by the power of the people, we cannot but feel the pains of our compatriots, and we deeply empathise with them. We are working round the clock to ease the pains of Nigerians, and the efforts of the government have started yielding fruits as we seek to make the petroleum products available nationwide, restore gas supply to the power generating firms, reflate the economy and put Nigerians back to work.
“We understand that Nigerians have started questioning whether this indeed is the CHANGE they voted for, while some have even gone as far as saying that by voting for our party, Nigerians have entered one chance.
“Well, I can tell Nigerians that our CHANGE AGENDA is real, and that indeed, they will get the change they voted for. Nigerians have not entered One Chance, because the One Chance drivers and their conductors have been driven out of town.
“While we cannot but provide context for the challenges being faced by our countrymen and women today, in the sense that it has taken years of mismanagement, corruption and inefficiency to get to this sorry pass, we make no excuses. After all the people voted for us so we can correct the mistakes of the past and enthrone good governance.
We are doing just that. But we want our compatriots to realize that 16 years of rot cannot be cleaned up overnight. It is much easier to destroy than to build. But we are determined to rebuild our country and to make life more abundant for our people.
“Change is a process, and that process has begun. We commend Nigerians for their perseverance. We urge them not to lose their confidence in the ability of this Administration to bring about the much-needed change.




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Nigerian writer and pastor, Femi Aribisala has shed more light on the 2015 presidential election which he believes was full of discrepancies.

Femi Aribisala


Read his new article below:

The innovation of the permanent voters cards is designed to permanently disenfranchise the south. If this is not redressed immediately, the north will always determine the winner in Nigerian elections.

If you did not see my column last week, it was because I did not want to rain on anyone’s parade. I wanted the euphoria over the bullet we missed by avoiding the riots that would have ensued had the APC been defeated to subside. But I am now back to tell you that the presidential election was a big INEC rigmarole. Long before Jonathan lost the election to Buhari, he had been defeated by the machinations of Jega and INEC.

As a matter of fact, General Buhari did not win this presidential election: President Jonathan lost it. The president lost because he allowed himself to be defeated. Maybe he did not want to remain in power badly enough. Or maybe there was a side of him that felt there is honour in being the first incumbent president to lose an election in Nigeria. Whatever the case; he failed to heed the warning of many that, like Aminu Tambuwal and Lamido Sanusi, Attahiru Jega was working for the enemy.

Failure of Tinubu

With the coalition of Bola Tinubu’s ACN and Buhari’s CPC, many concluded that the outcome of the 2015 presidential election would be determined in the South-West. The assumption was that Tinubu would provide the killer-punch that had been missing in Buhari’s earlier failed attempts. However, this has proved to be mistaken. Tinubu failed to clean up the South-West with his broom for the APC. Indeed, in order for the APC to prevail in Lagos with only 160,000 votes, INEC had to ensure that many non-indigenes could not get their PVCs.

The truth of the matter is that, quite apart from the shenanigan of having a Redeemed Yoruba pastor as Buhari’s vice-presidential running-mate, the people of the south-west don’t like Buhari. In the 2011 election, they said this emphatically by giving him a paltry 321,000 votes out of the 4.7 million cast in the geopolitical zone. This time, in 2015, Buhari received 2.4 million south-west votes, with a plurality of 600,000 over Jonathan. However, most of those votes were actually not for Buhari: they were against Jonathan.

In the end, the South-West vote was neither pivotal to Buhari’s victory nor central to Jonathan’s defeat. Tinubu’s assistance for Buhari ended at the APC presidential primaries where he got Buhari nominated against the wishes of Northern delegates. All Tinubu did at the level of the presidential election was to give a façade of national spread to Buhari’s essentially Northern victory. This factor will soon come to haunt Tinubu and his South-West cohorts when it is time to share the spoils of victory in the Buhari administration.

Should APC lose the Lagos governorship election, Tinubu would be left in a quandary. All the Northern timber and caliber who were missing in action throughout the campaign when Tinubu, Fashola and other Southern politicians were running helter-skelter with Buhari, will soon come out of the woodwork to claim their Buhari inheritance. Inevitably, they will overshadow the Southern brigade. Vice-President Osinbajo will simply be sent to fetch water when crucial decisions are to be made by Northern “born-to-rule” elements.

Southerners without coattails

In order to defeat the PDP, APC needed to undermine Jonathan in his areas of greatest strengths – the South-South and the South-East. However, APC men like Amaechi, Okorocha and Oshiomhole proved to be paper-tigers in these areas. In Rivers, Amaechi was disgraced. With all his bluster, he could only deliver 69,000 votes to Buhari; while Jonathan made off with a whopping 1.45 million. No wonder, therefore, that the governor tried to save face by saying there was any election in Rivers. He even rented a crowd to go on a perfunctory demonstration.

Chinem Bestman sent me a text message from Port Harcourt with the same complaint that the election was rigged. I answered by asking him if there has ever been a free and fair election in Rivers since 1999. Amaechi knew the ropes, therefore when he came for accreditation, he asked to see the election result sheet. He knew the traditional rigmarole in Rivers was to doctor the report sheet. Now that he has been out-rigged, he is singing a different tune; asking Rivers people to forgive him.

In Imo, Okorocha was humiliated. He could only deliver 19% of the vote to Buhari. It looks like the governor is going to need another job very soon as he is unlikely to be re-elected. In Edo, Oshiomhole did much better. APC lost with 208,000 votes to PDP’s 286,000. Nevertheless, Oshiomhole tried to explain this away by complaining that PDP used the military to manipulate the election. However, when INEC announced the results, APC won the senatorial election in Edo North; one of the places where the governor claimed PDP used the military to rig.

Assault on the South-East

Godsday Orubebe grabbed the microphone during the collation of the election results and alleged to the whole world that INEC chairman Attahiru Jega is partial and tribalistic. His outburst may have been embarrassing, but it is not entirely without justification. The evidence of INEC’s partiality is compelling. Although ex-president Jonathan put a call to Orubebe to stop his protest, and he has decided to accept the verdict of INEC, that does not mean we should sweep INEC’s shenanigans under the carpet.

It is easy to fob off Orubebe by saying he was only being emotional because he is a PDP man from Niger Delta, a kinsman of Mr. President who “lost” the election. That just won’t cut it. I am not a Niger Deltan. I don’t belong in the PDP. I don’t know Goodluck Jonathan and I have never ever met him or spoken to him. Cynical Nigerians believe anyone who supports Jonathan must either be in his pay or be looking for a job. Neither allegation is applicable to me. Jonathan ostensibly received 12.8 million votes; surely all these people were neither in his pay nor Aso Rock job-seekers.

My faith requires me to support the weak. Therefore, I will always support the minority against the tyranny of the majority. We cannot be reliant on South-South oil in Nigeria and then treat one of their sons as if he is an impostor for being president of the country. The fact of the matter is that this presidential election was the result of a vicious and malicious gang-up of the majority ethnic groups against the minorities.

Since the civil war, the Igbos of the South-East have been treated as if they are a minority ethnic group in Nigeria when in fact they are one of the majorities. In order to diminish Jonathan’s votes, a major assault was made against them; recognising that they are some of the staunchest Jonathan supporters. In 2011, the Igbo gave Goodluck Jonathan a decisive 5 million votes. The task of INEC in 2015 was to ensure that did not recur.

INEC rigmarole

Buhari prevailed as a result of a deliberate disenfranchisement of the Igbo by INEC through the manipulation of PVC distribution and the failure of the card reader in the South-East and the South-South. INEC ensured that, far more disproportionately and relative to other geopolitical zones, millions of South-East voters disappeared between 2011 and 2015, in order to provide a smooth passage for a Northern presidential candidate; which turned out to be Buhari.

The first strategy of INEC in this regard was to create 29,000 additional polling units, allocating 21,000 of these to the North and only 8,000 to the South. In this crass manipulation, INEC gave more additional polling units to Abuja than it gave to the entire South-East. However, widespread outcry over this proposal forced INEC to jettison it despite protracted resistance by Jega.

But INEC had a plan B: the registration of voters and the collection of PVCs. This was bogus and lopsided; skewed most especially against the south-east where only 7.6 million were registered and 5.6 million PVCs collected. Compare this with the war-torn north-east: 9.1 million were registered and 7.4 million collected. But the most outrageous were the figures of the north-west. 17.6 million registrations and 15.1 million collections were recorded in the North-West; much more than the figures in the entire South-East and South-South combined.

On election day, news of a bomb blast in Enugu served to discourage people from coming out to vote in the South-East. In addition, there was widespread late voter accreditation and voting in the South-East as well as the South-South. One reason for this was the massive failure of the card-readers in these zones, highly suggestive that they were programmed to fail there.

Quite incredibly, the card-reader failed to recognise even the president. It took President Jonathan 35 minutes to get accredited; but within five hours, we are meant to believe that 2.5 million voters in Kano were duly accredited. In the middle of the election, INEC changed from card-reader to manual accreditation. This suddenly brought into play the huge voter registrations in the North-West. Cell-phone video recordings showed many of the North-West’s bloated PVC holders to be under-aged children.

Abracadabra

The total effect of these machinations is that over 2.4 million South-East voters were successfully disenfranchised. 38 million people nationwide voted for Buhari and Jonathan in 2011. In 2015, this figure shrank to 28 million. The votes of the South-West remained virtually constant. 4.6 million people of the South-West voted in 2011: 4.2 million in 2015. But compare this with what happened in the South-East. 5 million people voted in 2011, only 2.6 million in 2015. That is a drastic drop of 2.4 million.

While Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa and Bauchi were posting their traditional humongous figures; Imo, Anambra and Abia were posting relatively disappointing figures. Jigawa used to be a part of Kano, when Kano was said to be bigger than Lagos. In the 2015 election, the votes of Jigawa and Kano combined was double that of Lagos. Lagos had 1.4 million votes. Jigawa and Kano had 3.1 million; virtually all for Buhari.

While the internally displaced Northerners in the North-East could vote, internally displaced Igbos from the North could not. In places like Lagos and Kano, many non-indigenes were not even given their PVCs


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A woman has shocked the world after she revealed that she has two v*ginas. Now, she has opened up on how her s*x life works.

Hazel Jones, the woman with two vaginas has opened up about her s*x life. She suffers from a medical condition called uterus didelphys, which means she has two of everything going on down there. Two vaginas, two cervixes and two uteri. Dailystar gives details of all she revealed about her s*x life.

She said: "I am a female who was born with a complete uterine didelphys which means I have two vaginas AMA (ask me anything).

"I am in my 20s. I found out I had two uteri, two cervices, and two vaginas when I was 16 years old.

"I've been told I can get pregnant in either uterus."

On the site she keeps her identity secret, but goes by the name nurseryRN. The enlightening feed reveals what it is like having sex with two vaginas and how it affects her periods and childbirth.

Here are the answers to some of her most commonly asked questions:

1. How did you find out about it?

"When I was 13 years old I had to have surgery on my intestines.

"When I got out of surgery, my parents were told to take me to an ob/gyn when I was 16 because "something is wrong with the reproductive system.

"My ob/gyn did a vaginal exam and told me I had a double vagina and two cervices and we decided to do an exploratory laparoscopy."

2. So the obvious question, how's your sex life?

"My sex life is good. It depends which vagina is penetrated.

"My vaginas are side by side and the left side hurts when penetrated because it is smaller.

"To my knowledge, due to the septum in my vagina, my center of gravity is covered. Other than that, I imagine that it's not much different than anyone else's."

This questions was met by a comment from Psykes, who said: "So basically, accidentally putting it in the wrong hole' is much more applicable to your situation than any other?"
3. Does the fact that you have two vaginas affect the way your orgasm?

"To my knowledge, my center of gravity is covered by the septum so I can only have clitoral orgasms and cervical orgasms that I know of."

4. What are guys reactions when they find out you have two vaginas?

"Disbelief lol which makes it fun to talk about."

5. What does your SO (significant other) think of it?

"He was shocked at first but he doesn't notice it when we have sex."

6. How do your menstrual cycles work? Do you get two at a time or are they at different times?

"I have two fallopian tubes, one connected to each uterus. I menstruate once a month."

7. Do you need two tampons?

"My doctor says I should use two tampons at one time but thats a bit ridiculous so I just use one.

"I can choose to get the septum removed but scar tissue may form.

"I would have to put a mould in my vagina twice a day for 15 minutes at a time and I would have to do that for 6 months."

8. Do you have a "normal" (as in you have 2 labia majora) vulva externally but internally its got a septum down the middle dividing it?

"It's separated about an inch into my vagina. Does that make sense?"

9. Can you could get pregnant twice, by two guys?

"If it was the same night I suppose. Once I get pregnant in one vagina my periods will stop all together because of my hormones."

10. What is the best and worst thing about having two vaginas?

"I guess the worst thing is sex can be uncomfortable because the left side is small.

"I guess the best thing is it makes a good conversation.

"Other than that there really isn't anything that makes it all that exciting."

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A fire has broken out at the office of Ranona Nigeria Limited, the makers of FreshYo yoghurt in the Isolo area of Lagos State.


Photos making rounds on social media has revealed that the office of Ranona Nigeria Limited, makers of FreshYo yoghurt, in the Isolo area of Lagos State, is currently engulfed on fire as some staff of the company are still reportedly trapped in the building.

According to an eyewitness who disclosed to a correspondent, "The source of the fire is still unknown. There are policemen and a few fire vans around but the building is still burning. The workers said that they all ran out after an alarm was raised," the witness said.


Ranona’s factory, which was completed in 2010, is worth N7.5 billion and covers 20,000sqm of prime land in Isolo. As at 2011, the company had 220 staff in its employ.

Ranona is a franchisee to Candia, a milk products manufacturer in France, and also produces Natures Fresh Fruit Juice, YoJus, Blue Boat cereal, Blue Boat Milk and Blue Boat oats among others.

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Cockroaches are strong carriers of bacteria that causes diseases and other ill-effects among human beings. Their presence in houses shouldn't be condoned as a safety measure.



The reddish brown insect that succeeds to gross out every single one of us with its mere unpleasant appearance actually feels much more homely on planet earth that we humans do.

With their existence dated back to the prehistoric era,about 70million years ago.Cockroaches are believed to be the only creature who would survive a nuclear explosion.
The association between humans and cockroaches is quite remarkable .These rapidly adapting insect have followed humans as pets from the time when our ancestors lived in caves to now when we have moved to skyscrapers.

There cannot be a single home in the world which has not been shared with cockroaches. in fact,most of you must be facing these disgusting creatures on a daily basis,seeing them crawl on your sink,running down the pipe hole,working over a pile of garbage or vesting peacefully in the corners of your refrigerator. the fact is cockroaches come out in the daylight only when the place is too crowded for them or when they are ill.

Not only they bring you special embarrassment and fear but also silently contribute to the deteriorating health of your family. Cockroaches by themselves do not cause any disease but they are vectors or carriers for millions of bacteria and infections agents that can lead to an array of disease from diarrhea to food poisoning.

1. Food contamination: cockroaches can virtually live by eating anything.Apart from the food we eat,they also feed on dead plants,animals,faecal matter,glue,soap,paper, leather and even strands of fallen hairs while crawling around at nights,they contaminate open food by defecating on it,leaving behind hair and dead skin and depositing empty egg shells in it.

2. Inoculation of disease-causing bacteria: While feeding cockroaches regurgitate their own saliva and digestive fluids from their mouth to inoculate your food with germs or bacterial residing in their gut.A study found that the bacterium pseudomonas acruginosa can multiply extensively in gut of cockroaches.It can cause several diseases like urinary tract infection,digestine problems and sepsis.

3. Cockroach bites: Some species of cockroaches have been found to bite humans.These cases are rare but if your home is heavily infested with these insects then you should be careful because they can nibble on fingernails,toes and soft parts of the skin causing wounds.

4. Invasion of body parts: Cockroaches can not only invade your home but also your body parts.There are several cases of cockroaches entering the ear and nose while sleeping.Small cockroaches can readily enter body orifices if you are in deep sleep.

5. food poisoning: In an epidemic outbreak of food poisoning, it was found that the incidence of new cases dropped abruptly after cockroach infestation was eliminated.The insect is also a home for the bacterium salmonella which can cause typhoid and food poisoning.

6. Allergies: cockroaches can cause allergies, their saliva secretion and body parts contain hundreds of allergens that can trigger an undesirable reaction.You may suffer from skin rashes,sneezing and watery eyes.

7. Asthma: Cockroaches can be the worst enemies of asthmatic people The incidence of asthma attack may increase if your house is infected with cockroaches.Cockroach allergens can cause severe complication and can even be life - threatening. And people who are not asthmatic may develop cockroach asthma by inhaling cockroach allergens.


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Chelsea’s 35-year-old captain John Terry, who is set to leave the club this summer, will be offered a quick route into management – at Danish club Brondby. (Daily Mirror)
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is close to agreeing a new three-year deal at the club, which will see his salary increased by around £1m a year to £4.5m. (Sun)
Ex-manager Brendan Rodgers would be interested in a return to Swansea for the 2016-17 campaign should the Welsh club make contact. (South Wales Evening Post)
Former Leicester manager Nigel Pearson and ex-Derby boss Nigel Clough are in line to replace Dougie Freedman, who was sacked by Nottingham Forest on Sunday. (Daily Star)
Chelsea striker Diego Costa, 27, will escape an FA biting charge but faces an extra game ban because he refused to leave the pitch when sent off against Everton in the FA Cup on Saturday. (Daily Mirror)
Everton’s new majority shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, believes he has bought into a family at Goodison Park and says he will “give them whatever I have”.(Liverpool Echo)
Liverpool will hold talks this week about the possible signing of Udinese’s Polish midfielder Piotr Zielinski, 21, who has been on loan at Empoli for the past two seasons. (Daily Mail)
Arsenal have made a move for Roma’s 19-year-old Nigerian striker Umar Sadiq, according to the player’s agent. (Sun)
The north London club have also been linked with a summer transfer move for Atletico Madrid midfielder Saul Niguez, 21. (Metro)
Manchester United have renewed hope of signing Paris St-Germain and Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani, 29. (L’Equipe via ESPN)
Bologna forward Mattia Destro, 24, is also keen on a move to Old Trafford, should Jose Mourinho get the manager’s job next season. (Metro)
Former Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn is not in the frame for the vacant chief executive position, despite being linked with a shock return to the Stadium of Light.(Sunderland Echo)
West Ham face competition for Borussia Monchengladbach midfielder Havard Nordtveit, 25, from Liverpool and the Norway international’s former club, Arsenal. (FourFourTwo)
And Bundesliga side Monchengladbach would like to hold on to Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen, 19, when the Denmark international’s two-year loan runs out. (Daily Mirror)

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is proposing a N50 charge on every cheque leaflet obtained and used at the deposit money bank's counter.


The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is proposing a N50 charge on every cheque leaflet obtained and used at the deposit money bank’s counter.

This is not the same as the collection charge on cheques, which is also proposed to be “one percent of cheque value or Naira equivalent of US $10 whichever is lower”.

The apex bank is also proposing a N100-per-month charge on every debit card (your typical ATM card) – separate from the existing N65 charge after the third withdrawal within the same month.

In its draft on the “guide to charges for banks and other financial institutions in Nigeria”, CBN also proposed a N4,200-per-annum charge on foreign currency denominated cards as maintenance fee.

For naira dominated cards, a monthly maintenance fee of N100 was also proposed for every month a debit card is used, and a N50 charge for other months when card is used or not.

The proposal is coming only 13 days after Nigerians protested excessive bank charges, declaring a ‘No Banking Day’ on March 1, 2016.

For foreign exchange related transactions, where Form M or Form A is needed to request forex from CBN, charges that were hitherto not applicable have now been proposed.

The CBN is proposing a charge of a N100 on Form A, which is used by students to apply for forex on school fees, medical bills, and travel allowances.

Form M, which is predominantly used by manufacturers to import goods (not on the CBN prohibition list), is proposed to henceforth cost “N1,000 in addition to maintenance fee on e-Form platform in line with CBN directive”.

The central bank also added that Nigerians could send in their comments on the proposed charges, seeking clarification and notifying the bank on excluded financial institutions.

“The Central Bank of Nigeria is currently reviewing the extant Guide to Bank Charges, which came into effect on April 1, 2013,” the circular, signed by Kevin Amugo, director financial policy and regulation department, read.

“The review, which is in line with the philosophy of periodically ensuring that the provisions of the guide accord with current realities, also seek to address complaints from customers of financial services, requests for clarification on provision of the guide and absence of a tariff regime for other financial institutions in Nigeria.

“Kindly send hard copies of your comments by March 29, 2016 to the director, financial policy and regulation department with soft copies mailed to gbcreview@cbn.gov.ng.”

It was revealed that deposit money banks currently charge an average of N1,500 for the issuance of a 50-page cheque book.


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The Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has joined others in paying tribute to the late Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, who died in a car crash with his wife and son along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway on Sunday.

Ocholi’s death left Dalung questioning the essence of life with the sports minister posting a picture he took with Ocholi and the Minister of State for Solid Minerals, Bawa Bwari, on Facebook.

Along with the picture, which Dalung has made his Facebook wall photo, he wrote, “IS THIS ALL ABOUT LIFE? I did not know that this was the last hug at the Federal Executive Council meeting. What a black Sunday in March? My brother, Rest in Peace, amen.”


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A heartless woman has executed vengeance on her own family by locking the house and setting the husband and children on fire while they slept.
House on fire (Photo used for illustrative purpose)

A woman has done a heartless thing in Murang’a County, Kenya. According to reports, the woman locked up her husband and two children as they slept and set them ablaze following a domestic feud.

It has been confirmed that the woman's husband, Samuel Kimani died in the fire incident around 3am.

It was neighbours who responded to distress calls by the victims managed to break the door and rescue the children who were in the sitting room, Citizen TV reports.

The woman identified as Mary Kabura however escaped only to be found unconscious three hours later. It was discovered that she had attempted to commit suicide using a pesticide but it failed. She was rushed to the hospital and is undergoing treatment.



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Despite its economic challenges, Nigeria is reported to top the list of private jet owners in Africa.
The number of private jets being acquired by the super-rich class of business moguls, bankers, pastors, politicians and oil magnates in the country has put Nigeria as one of the fastest growing private jet markets in the world.




Here are the names of Nigerians who are proud owners of private jets.
1. Aliko Dangote: He is one of the richest men in the world and owns two private jets, a Bombardier Global Express 5000 worth $45m(N7.2billion) and Bombardier Global Express XRS.

2. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu : A former governor of Lagos state and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, he owns a brand-new Bombadier Global Express XRS valued at $50 million (N10 billion).

3. Orji Uzor Kalu: Kalu tops the chart of private jet owners in Nigeria as he has five. He owns a Gulfstream G650 which he reportedly bought for $72 million (N11.5 billion).

4. Bishop David Oyedep o: He is the General Overseer of the Winners Chapel and has a total of four jets.

5. Pastor Enoch Adeboye: He is the head of the Redeemed Church of God and owns a Gulfstream GIV (N707EA) registered as E. Adeboye / Emmanuel Aviation.

6. Mike Adenuga : He is one of the richest men in Nigeria and has three private jets.
7. Ali Modu Sheriff : He is a former governor of Borno state and current national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. He has a total of four jets.

8. Mohammed Indimi – He’s a billionaire businessman, who owns a private jet (Gulfstream GIV (N52MK).

9. Rotimi Amaechi : The former governor of Rivers state purchased the Brazilian-made Embraer Legacy which he said was for the state government.

10. Godswill Akpabio : the former governor of Akwa Ibom state purchased the Gulfstream, also said to belong to the state government.

11. Ayo Oritsejafor : He is the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria and owns a Bombardier jet which he said was a gift.

12. T.B. Joshua : He is the leader and founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations. He reportedly acquired a Gulfstream G550 aircraft worth about $60million in April 2015.

13. Femi Otedola: He is a billionaire businessman.

14. Jide Omokore : is a businessman from Kogi state reportedly owns four private jets.


15. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma : He flies a Hawker 900XP Hawker private jet , and is also the owner of a Challenger 605 Bombadier.

source:

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This was contained in a statement signed by the chairman of the PDP Rescue Group, Amb. Wilberforce Juta, where the group said it will not rest until sanity is restored back to the party.

This was contained in a statement signed by the chairman of the PDP Rescue Group, Amb. Wilberforce Juta, where the group said it will not rest until sanity is restored back to the party.

The Juta-led group stated that the NWC’s tenure will end by March 26, 2016, and that no authority has the power under the PDP Constitution to extend the tenure of any official or organ of the party.

The statement reads in part: “Although a joint meeting of representatives of the Board of Trustees, the National Working Committee, the National Assembly Caucus and the PDP Governors’ Forum had offered a compromise to the current crisis, we affirm that no authority has the power under the PDP Constitution to extend the tenure of any official or organ of the party. The tenure of the current National Executive Committee, NWC, will expire on 28th March 2016. We expect all leaders and organ to abide by that.

“Congresses and the National Convention to elect new party leaders at all levels can be conducted in the month of March, 2016. Friday 26th February, 2016 marks the third day in line with the seven days ultimatum handed down by the National Caucus to the NWC to produce a programme leading to the party Congresses and the National Convention.

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Olisa Metuh at the Federal High Court, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday disclosed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, tore the statement he wrote to his investigators because he had accepted that he received money and also because he had made reference to former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan.
The EFCC, at the commencement of Metuh’s trial before Justice Ishaq Bello of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), said Metuh tore the statement on realizing that he had implicated himself by admitting that he received money from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
The PDP spokesman is standing trial on a three-count charge for allegedly destroying his statement and obstruction of investigation.
The first prosecution witness, Junaid Said, who was led in evidence by prosecution lawyer, Sylvanus Tahir, said he took statement from Metuh, who, he said, later tore a sheet of the four-sheet statement.
“My Lord, when he concluded writing his statement which was on four sheets of the EFCC statement form, I collected the statement and read over it. I then handed the statement over to my superiors – Musa and Wetkas. When I was handing over the statement, the defendant said he was surprised that he had written that much and that he felt he had given too much information.
“Because of the comment, I was worried I gave him the statement sheets one after the other for endorsement. He endorsed the first and second sheet, but he tore the third sheet. The third sheet was where the defendant (Metuh) disclosed that he received the money for PDP political activities, settle his personal needs and made reference to former President Goodluck Jonathan,” the witness told the court.



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The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has arrested three suspects, who, according to the agency, have perfected plans to blackmail Lawal Daura, the Director-General of the service.
Presenting the suspects before newsmen, on Friday in Abuja, an official of the service, Abdullahi Garba, said that they were arrested on Feb. 17 in Kaduna and Abuja respectively.
Garba explained that they claimed that the director-general had collected the sum of N4 billion from the PDP governors of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Abia and Taraba, to influence Supreme Court judgments in their favour.
He said the suspects were also to misinform President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian public that the director-general had acquired choice property in Maitama and Asokoro areas of Abuja.
“The overall objective was to scare the director-general and put him under pressure just for the group to extort money from him to serve their pecuniary interest.”
Garba added that the director-general could not have helped the same PDP governors who daily accused him of not supporting them.
He said the activities of the group had become widespread, adding that it took advantage of the sustained war against corruption to further their illegal act.
“A method used by the group is to tell lies against their victims and also plant rumours about them in certain government circles.”
Garba said that they also used scaremongering and name dropping to deceive their victims to part with money.
He said that the service would not be distracted in its commitment to the anti-corruption war and warned mischief makers and self-appointed security experts to desist from dabbling into sensitive security matters.
“It is to be emphasised that the service will not hesitate to decisively deal with such persons and groups within the ambit of the law,” he said.
Meanwhile, the trio, who hail from Kaduna, Borno and Katsina, however, denied the allegation, saying that they were arrested on false allegation.
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the offer by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to organize a financing roundtable in Abuja to mobilize more funds for investment and development of infrastructure in Nigeria, is highly welcomed by his government.



Buhari said this during his meeting with the President of the IDB, Dr Ahmed Mohammed Ali in Saudi Arabia today February 25th.

A statement by Presidential media aide, Shehu Garba, states that Buhari during the meeting, restated his government's determination to revamp and diversify the Nigerian economy rapidly.

"The days of Nigeria as a big oil producer with plenty of money are gone. We need all the support we can get to diversify our economy as quickly as possible. We also need to rehabilitate our infrastructure, develop the domestic capacity to feed ourselves and export the surplus,".

President Buhari welcomed the plan by the IDB to fast track the take-off of the Bilingual Education Program, aimed at integrating the Almajiri system of education with Western education in Nigeria. IDP President, Dr. Ali assured President Buhari that the IDB will work with its traditional partners such as the Saudi Fund, the Kuwait Fund, Arab Bank for Development in Africa and the Abu Dhabi Fund, to increase the quantum of funding available to Nigeria.

The IDB has already provided US$ 98 million for the Bilingual Education Program in Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Osun and Yobe. The bank plans to support similar projects in other states of Nigeria


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This piece tends to look at the travails of the naira in recent times as it has suffered incessant fluctuation in value against the dollar.

The assumption that Nigeria is divided between those who “want” devaluation and those who oppose it is a false appearance. Any rational Nigerian, especially middle class individuals, who can be assumed to be rationally self-interested “want” a strong currency so that they can maintain real purchasing power and lifestyles in a globalized consumerist economy.

There is no division amongst Nigerians, especially within elite and middle class society on that erroneous basis! The real argument is over economics and its basic principles. Economics is all about how to reconcile “wants” and “needs” with “resources”-the most basic principle in economics is “scarcity” and the imperative of “choice” in a real world in which we can’t have everything we “want”.

According to The Economist’s “Dictionary of Economics”, scarcity refers to “a situation in which the needs and wants of an individual or group…exceed the resources available to satisfy them. In the presence of scarcity, choices HAVE to be made between those wants that can be satisfied and those that cannot be: the available resources must in some way be rationed, either through price or some central distribution system. In the absence of scarcity, no difficult choices would need to be made, no prices would need to be attached to anything, and the study of economics would be rendered entirely unnecessary”.

Exchange rates are a “price” with which an economy rations scarce foreign currency and the entire devaluation debate is about whether very scarce dollars should be rationed through the price mechanism or (as the beneficiaries of the current huge N200/$ subsidy argue) should be distributed administratively by the CBN to whomever it pleases!!! So the question is not whether anyone “wants” devaluation, but whether given our current “economics”, is devaluation an appropriate or optimal policy response? The other question of course is, if you reject devaluation, what alternative AND effective policy response do you recommend to deal with the current policy quagmire? Just saying no and watching helplessly as the currency slides to N400/$ everywhere except in the CBN is NOT a policy response!!!

By the way, we should take a step back and restate the facts-I agree entirely with Emir of Kano and former CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido who pointed out, completely correctly that devaluation of the currency HAS in fact already occurred! The debate is now over the appropriateness or otherwise of CBN using federation account resources (which jointly belong to the federal, states and LGAs) to subsidise foreign currency needs of selected businesses and middle class persons who travel abroad, educate their children overseas or seek medical treatment outside the country. For every other person who needs dollars in Nigeria, devaluation has already happened! It should be noted that CBN has not provided any objective criteria on the basis of which it is allocating the scarce dollars, and questions may legitimately be raised on some of the published allocations! In effect the CBN is administering a huge subsidy based on unknown and unclear criteria, and without transparency on the basis of the allocations!

The current situation guarantees moral hazard, corruption, subjective considerations, cronyism and crony capitalism, favouritism, influence peddling and administrative abuses. I am willing to bet that central bank officials with the unfettered prerogative to administer this subsidy, not being angels or saints, may already be susceptible to one or more of these challenges!!! I have mentioned earlier in addition that this large subsidy is being shared not from resources that belong to the federal government or CBN, but the federation, including our insolvent states and local governments. While it is apparent that current policy has the concurrence of President Buhari, it is not clear that the states and LGAs if they fully understood what is going on, would endorse the “donation” of approximately half of their legitimate income to some businessmen and middle class families! I cannot think of a worse national subsidy anywhere in the world!!! With regard to the businesses currently obtaining the tremendous FX subsidy from the national purse, it is evident that they benefit from an anti-competitive and unfair advantage over other businesses who are “less-fortunate” and it is not evident that the Nigerian economy benefits from the dispensing of such subsidies.

One may also ask whether beneficiaries of our subsidized dollars discount their retail prices to fully reflect the public subsidy, relative to their competitors? There is a fundamental economic illiteracy emanating from some of the contra-devaluation sources, including surprisingly from several who hold degrees and advanced degrees in economics-we do not export anything so we wouldn’t benefit from devaluing (so we NEVER want to export anything knowing that prices provide INCENTIVES for future behavior?); people should stop asking for devaluation and instead should start consuming locally produced goods and services (isn’t this argument illogical and contradictory? If we want to discourage imports and encourage local production, why are we so determined to protect the Naira so that imports remain relatively cheap?); devaluation would lead to inflation (devaluation has ALREADY happened and is already reflected in inflation which is now 9.6% since most importers and manufacturers now get their FX from non-CBN sources and even those who get CBN FX subsidy know the correct cost of dollars); finally they say devaluation will hurt the poor, which is the biggest lie (the poor have nothing to do with exchange rates; they eat local food; do not send their children to schools abroad; get medical treatment from primary health centres; and get absolutely no benefit from whether you devalue or not!).

The truth is that the only beneficiaries of subsidized FX are the few businesses who CBN in its grace “allocates” dollars to, and the segment of the elites who secure PTA, BTA, school fees and medical payments in foreign currency from the central bank!!! As well as those now able to “round-trip” official dollars into autonomous markets at huge profit!!! The real situation, casting aside Nigeria’s powerful people who seek an unfair advantage through a privileged FX subsidy, is that the country built a defective economy in which 95 percent of exports and 75 percent of government revenue came from oil. That situation is no longer tenable and our monthly FX income has declined precipitously with the current exchange rate simply not sustainable. Worse still the current official exchange rates has resulted in the dry-up of foreign direct and portfolio investments; and even diaspora remittances which are required to be made at official or near-official rates have also dried up. Manufacturers are starved of inputs and our banking system is increasingly not credible in the global financial system and we may soon, if not already, return to cash-collateralized letters of credit and the scarcity of “essential commodities” as in the 1980s and 1990s!!!

We have seen this movie before, and we know how it would end!!! In 1980, oil prices fell due to a global oil glut. Nigeria had a fixed exchange rate and therefore could not use the pricing mechanism to modulate between demand and supply of dollars. Our reserves were quickly exhausted and then we started borrowing from the Paris and London Clubs, multilaterals and commercial creditors and soon we were trapped in debt which we could not service. We are already replaying this sequence seeking to borrow N2.2trillion or more to fund the 2016 budget; our debt service ratio is already 25 percent of federal revenue, even before we take the proposed huge loans; we have fixed our exchange rate at N197/$ and our reserves are fast declining (now at $27billion). To deal with the scarcity of dollars in the 1980s, we tried everything except devaluation-austerity and import licensing, which was plagued by corruption and cronyism-we are doing the same today. Then Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari tried countertrade (trade by barter) which also failed miserably.

Nigerians (and evidently President Buhari) learnt the wrong lessons from the 1980s episode-that Babangida “killed” the Naira!!! Former military President Babangida had his problems-a weakness of character that resulted in erosion of societal values and increased corruption; and political gerrymandering resulting in a protracted political transition and the eventual annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections. Babangida and all his military colleagues (Ironsi, Gowon, Murtala/Obasanjo, Buhari, Abacha and Abdulsalam) did one further damage to Nigeria-the subversion and destruction of institutions including federalism, constitutionalism, the universities, civil service, the professional bodies, the media etc. However in relation to the economic crisis, all of his predecessors merely kicked the problem down the road, with Babangida being the only one with the courage to confront the problem!

He did not create the economic dependency on oil and the policy elements that turned the Nigerian political economy into a prebendal, distributive, imported consumption-based society. In 1986 having exhausted our reserves and become indebted to the international community, devaluation was inevitable and unavoidable!!! Abacha tried the dual exchange rate system we are currently experimenting with, and that also failed! As for the poor, they are now again the victims-losing their jobs in large numbers; poverty is increasing as output growth and consumption drops, and recession risks rise. After Nigeria’s unprecedented elections on March 28 2015, exchange rates rallied from N225-N235/$ to around N200/$ as markets discounted political risk and imputed optimism into the Nigerian economy.

The current scenario where rates approach N400/$ reflects a gross failure of policy at the CBN, fiscal authorities and the presidency, and cannot be blamed on previous administrations. It is because we have left exchange rate management, and indeed broader economic policy to fear, speculation, drift, myths, superstition, politics and propaganda resulting in acute uncertainty and volatility. Nigeria’s current imperative is to return to rational economics and the imperative of building a productive, competitive, export-oriented and diversified economy.


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As the nation’s currency which exchanged at N400 to the US dollar on Sunday is currency selling at N310, Nigerians are now congratulating business mogul, after he stated that he could restore the nation’s currency to an exchange rate of N200 to one US Dollar within one month.
Read More about the Ifeanyi Ubah’s Naira to Dollar Issue
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Speak­ing on a Channels Television poli­tics programme on Sunday, billionaire businessman and the Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Services Ltd., Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, said that if the President Buhari-led federal gov­ernment consults him, he could re­store the nation’s currency to an ex­change rate of N200 to $1 within one month, thereby arresting the slide in the Naira which is virtu­ally crippling the economy.


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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the immediate past acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus.
The party’s director for new media, Adeyanju Ayodeji, said the EFCC accused Mr. Secondus of receiving buses illegally, and demanded he returned them.
Mr. Secondus’ tenure as acting chairman of the party ended last week Monday, with the selection of Ali Modu Sheriff as the party’s new national chairman.
In a statement by the party’s national legal adviser, Victor Kwon, the PDP said lamented “the oppressive and unfair treatments against its key leaders by the Federal Government”.
“The party alerts the nation that the arrest and detention of its Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is part of the grand script by the APC-led Federal Government to decimate the opposition,” the party said.
The party said it was also aware of plans to “arrest and detain the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio and other leaders of the party on imaginary charges”.
“Indeed, intelligence available to the party shows that the Federal Government, using its various agencies, is bent on destroying any opposition to the ruling party as all indications show that the government is more interested in humiliating the PDP than fighting corruption


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Five Star General, KCEE is the standard, international Bureau De Changer. On the heels of the hugely successful collaborative single ‘Ebeano,’ The serial Five Star hitmaker releases new music video titled ‘Bureau De Changer’. The Dr. Amir produced ‘Bureau De Changer’ brings the trademark groove in a hybrid sound where Pop, percussion meets heavy high-life sque trumpeting. The limpopo king gets a new name, Enter the life with the new Alhaji Naira!.


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